Gone.
- yer mom
- Has anybody here seen my old friend fleabag bum-house?
It was demolished as of “one or two days ago.” I am mildly sad about this. The Seven Gables management has no idea what will become of the now-vacant lot nextdoor.
My suggestions:
1. Water park.
2. An exact replica of the boarded-up fleabag bum-house only slightly smaller.
3. Kookooroo.
Anyone else? Ideas?
That house was awesome and beautiful
Lindy,
I live close by. I’ll check it out. I love the Seven Gables Theater though. I hope that isn’t razed. It’s a cool & cozy theater. My favorite.
the new nickelsville
I live pretty close as well. I don’t see anything happening to the Seven Gables, but the old Mamma Melina space really needs a new tenant.
Clearly we need another Dale Chihuly glass museum.
I live across the street and am SO happy that place is gone!
Space Needle 2
The University District has less than its fair share of green open space. In my personal opinion, it should be converted into green space.
Thai restaurant.
Fleabags fascinate me. This one was slumlorded by the same subsidiary of the Mark Cuban-controlled Landmark that owns the Gables. They paid a bit over a million for it in 1998 – city records show they declared it vacant in April and the city declared it unfit for human habitation in September. They got the demolition permit in October, and here we are.
I found no permit applications online for doing anything with the land now.
http://info.kingcounty.gov/Assessor/eRea…
http://web1.seattle.gov/DPD/permitStatus…
a greenhouse p-patch so we can grow some bananas up in there!
@9 Pho restaurant.
P.S. I found no applications or permits to suggest there’s any change planned for the Seven Gables building itself, so I guess we can rest easy on that.
Giant bacon sculpture.
it will be another 8 pack of wedged-in townhomes.
Children’s Toy shop!! You can never have enough of them.
I saw them tearing it down yesterday, glad to see that eyesore gone. I always wondered what it was like inside…
how about we dig a 40 foot hole in the ground and leave it like that for a few years
TUBS!
@7
No, I’ve already got plans in the works to build a second, taller space needle right across the street from the current one.
An American Foursquare would be perfect there.
I think it’s a shame. I don’t know the particular history on that house, but it was likely to have been built in the 1910s or 20s, like a lot of the houses in the neighborhood. Houses like that will never be built again, for one thing you could never find the lumber to do so. I’d much rather see these old houses get fixed up, then get torn down and turned into multi-unit townhomes.
Roosevelt, it was built in 1935. I don’t know what the owners (the national theater chain that owns the Seven Gables) have planned for it – development or sale. Clearly it sorely needed renovation if it was to be made fit for human habitation again – the theatre company had let it slide into unfit condition for years.
THUNDERDOME.